Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot statistics

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

> On Thursday 07 February 2002 8:43 pm, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> > So far, no bugs have been reported for 5.1.0.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug, I configured --prefix=/usr/local, then "make
> -n install" gives:
>
> ...
> cp -p -a plmodule.so /usr/local//usr/lib/python2.0//site-packages
> cp -p -a pyqt_plmodule.so /usr/local//usr/lib/python2.0//site-packages

Looks like YACP, yet another configuration problem.  That extra /usr
in the middle of the path shouldn't be there.  If I specify either
/usr/local/plplot or /usr for the prefix everything works fine.


>
> I have been looking at the distributed rpm specs files, and I found that they
> specify /usr as the install point.

That's standard for all rpms and also debs.  In Linux distributions
/usr/local is reserved for tarball installs *not* under rpm (or deb) control
and /usr is reserved for debs and rpms.  Those who use a prefix of /usr for
tarball installs or a /usr/local prefix for rpm or deb installs get what
they deserve....;-)

>
> I think to remember that you said the the java examples would stay under
> lib/java/examples, to avoid setting CLASSPATH to two different directories.
> Is this correct? and really necessary?

I would prefer them installed with the other examples (which would require
two separate directories in the colon-separated list of directories in
CLASSPATH), but Geoffrey felt they should stay where they are currently
installed so CLASSPATH would only need one directory. I went along at the
time, but when users make their own java plplot examples they'll need two
directories in the CLASSPATH in any case. So I hope Geoffrey changes his
mind about where the Java examples should be installed, but if not, that is
fine as well.

Alan